Thanks to Jesse Lyn Stoner for inviting me to post Change Your Story, Change Your Organization to the Seapoint Center blog. It elaborates on five roles highlighted in the Berkana Institute’s Two Loops Model of Change.
Some reflections on the implications of these roles for journalists is on the Journalism That Matters site: Stories for Navigating the Waves of Change.
Enjoy!
Enjoy this short video from the workshop that Tova Averbuch, Christine Whitney Sanchez, and I did of our workshop, Engaging Possibilities: The Art & Science of Radical Appreciation, in Israel this summer:
I recently got the news that Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity won the gold Nautilus Book Award for Conscious Business/Leadership.
From their site:
“The Nautilus Awards recognize books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living & positive social change, while at the same time they stimulate the ‘imagination’ and offer the reader ‘new possibilities’ for a better life and a better world.”
They look for distinguished literary and heartfelt contributions to spiritual growth, conscious living, high-level wellness, green values, responsible leadership and positive social change.
Previous winners include Deepak Chopra, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Riane Eisler, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jean Houston, David Korten, Frances Moore Lappe’, Eckhart Tolle, Lynne Twist, Andrew Weil.
Nice company!
Engaging Emergence has been making its way into other blogs lately.
My last entry — The Challenge of Power – inspired Curtis Ogden to further the conversation on power and emergence, Power and Emergent Change « Interaction Institute for Social
And the Freisen Group post, Reading about Change, reflected on the pace of change.
My publisher, Berrett-Koehler, hosts blog of lists. Here’s my entry: Don’t Hold On!
They featured the post in a recent BK Communiqué. (A quick, amusing read. I recommend it!)
In the process, they offered a 30% discount for Engaging Emergence through November 30th.
More, The Change Handbook chapters are available electronically via Fast Fundamentals for 99 cents each through the end of November. Take advantage of the sale through the links below:
THE CHANGE HANDBOOK on Fast Fundamentals:
Opening Chapters
The Big Picture: Making Sense of More Than Sixty Methods
Selecting Change Methods: The Art of Mastery
Preparing to Mix and Match Change Methods
Creating Conditions for Sustainable Change
In-depth Chapters
Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change
Dynamic Planning and the Power of Charrettes
Dialogue and Deliberation Processes
Future Search: Common Ground Under Complex Conditions
Integrated Clarity: Energizing How We Talk and What We Talk About
Online Environments That Support Change
Using Playback Theatre to Create Empathy
The Rapid Results Method to Jump-Start Change
The Six Sigma Approach to Improvement and Organizational Change
The Technology of Participation
Visual Recording and Graphic Facilitation: Helping People See What They Mean
Thumbnail Chapters
Action Review Cycle and the After Action Review Meeting
Civic Engagement: Restoring Community through Empowering Conversation
Collaborative Work Systems Design
The Cycle of Resolution: Conversational Competence for Creating and Sustaining Shared Vision
The Drum Cafe: Building Wholeness One Beat at a Time
The Practice of Empowerment: Changing Behavior and Developing Talent in Organizations
Gemeinsinn-Werkstatt: Project Framework for Community Spirit
Evolutions of Open Systems Theory
OpenSpace-Online Real-Time Methodology
PeerSpirit Circling: Creating Change in the Spirit of Cooperation
Power of Imagination Studio: A Further Development of the Future
SimuReal: Action Learning in Hyperdrive
SOAR: A New Approach to Strategic Planning
Strategic Visioning: Bringing Insight to Action
Think Like a Genius: Realizing Human Potential Though the Purpose
The 21st Century Town Meeting: Engaging Citizen in Governance
Web Lab’s Small Group Dialogues on the Internet Commons
The Whole Systems Approach: Using the Entire System to Change and Run the Business
Closing Chapters
From Chaos to Coherence: The Emergence of Inspired Organizations
High-Leverage Ideas and Actions You Can Use to Shape the Future
Hope for the Future: Working Together for a Better World
At long last, it is available. I am delighted to say that Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity is now for sale from Amazon, Berrett-Koehler, Barnes and Noble, or through local bookstores.
I have a confession. I have an ambitious goal for the book: to meet today’s needs in the way The Fifth Discipline did 20 years ago. And you can help make that happen.
You see, writing Engaging Emergence was a call I couldn’t ignore. We face disruption in so many of our systems and people are looking for answers. The book is my contribution to clarify what each of us inherently knows so we can not only successfully engage with disturbance but also grow that capacity in those we touch.
So, if the book moves you, buy a copy, give another to a friend. And let others know about it. In today’s connected world, there are many ways:
Send an email, blog about it, Tweet about it (#engagingemergence), mention it on Facebook, include it a newsletter. You can link to it at www.engagingemergence.com or on Facebook at www.bit.ly/engagingemergence
Post a review on Amazon. Scroll down to “Customer Reviews”, click on “Create Your Own Review” and jot down a few lines or make a short video.
Share book related event information. I post upcoming workshops, webinars, and other places I’ll be talking about the book. Join in and let others know.
Be old fashioned. Review the book in a local paper or an industry or other type of national publication.
Do the unexpected. No doubt there are more ways to get the word out than I’ll come up with. Be creative. Do something fun and share the idea on the book’s Facebook page or in the comments at www.engagingemergence.com.
Thank you for your support in helping Engaging Emergence make its contribution.
With love and gratitude
I held a copy of Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity for the first time today, Friday the 13th of August, at 11:16am. The event was foreshadowed by an email forwarded by a friend telling her that Amazon.com would be shipping her copy earlier than anticipated. So I knew the book would reach me soon.
With the product of more than a year’s work in my hands, I found myself saying over and over, “it’s a book”. As with any birth, I sensed that my life was about to change.
At the same time, I was aware of something missing. The readers. And more than readers, the people who want to engage with the ideas in the book. If my life changes, it is because of the response the book evokes.
And so, while I’ve reached a milestone, the next one looms large: the moment when others receive their copies, read them, and respond.
Soon!
On Thursday, July 29th at 18:00 CET/9:00am Pacific/Noon Eastern, the hosts of the upcoming Organization Development World Summit 2010, happening in Budapest in August are sponsoring an online chat with me on Open Space Technology.
You’ll have a chance to watch a recorded 20 minute interview I did on Open Space: http://odws2010.weebly.com/ and post questions and comments in a chat space on the page.
I’m hosting a 1 and a half day pre-conference workshop in Budapest called Open Space Technology: Supporting Self-organization at the conference on August 21st and 22nd.
The online chat is an appetizer.
How Does the Chat Work?
The interview will be broadcast at: http://odws2010.weebly.com/. You just need a computer and internet access to participate.
During the interview, you can post comments and questions on the website. I’ll respond to as many of the questions and comments as I can. So come online and ask about what interests you!
